Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 234 293
Rank change year-on-year -90 +59 -84
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 500 578 954
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.37% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.47% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 218 304 525
10th Percentile £39,695 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,633 £56,737 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,771 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £58,102
% change year-on-year +0.92% +7.57% -7.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -72 455 £66,771 -4.61% 344
London +14 281 £85,000 +9.68% 221
Work from Home +50 245 £69,501 +6.92% 175
UK excluding London -163 162 £63,076 +0.92% 175
North of England -38 64 £75,000 -3.23% 29
North West -11 38 £85,000 +13.33% 14
South East -131 29 £51,750 -26.07% 61
Midlands -52 27 £58,750 -4.08% 20
Yorkshire -49 23 £63,076 +94.08% 12
East of England -16 21 £60,100 -7.54% 31
West Midlands -36 21 £57,500 -8.00% 10
South West -85 16 £62,500 +4.17% 22
East Midlands -52 6 £152,500 +190.48% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland -34 4 £55,000 +22.22% 7
North East -38 3 £63,076 -23.54% 3
Wales -28 2 £72,251 +20.71% 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 16 (3.20%) Confluence
3 11 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.40%) CICS
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (7.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 25 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (4.00%) Workfront
2 6 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.40%) Magento
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (15.80%) AWS
2 60 (12.00%) SaaS
3 47 (9.40%) Azure
4 34 (6.80%) iPaaS
5 21 (4.20%) GitHub
6 20 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.80%) Pulumi
8 17 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (2.40%) GCP
10 10 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.80%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.60%) Figma
13 7 (1.40%) Asana
14 5 (1.00%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.80%) Google Analytics
15 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.80%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.80%) Miro
15 4 (0.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 60 (12.00%) Broadband
2 28 (5.60%) HTTP
3 11 (2.20%) WAN
4 10 (2.00%) SD-WAN
5 8 (1.60%) LAN
6 6 (1.20%) RTP
7 4 (0.80%) Network Security
7 4 (0.80%) NGN
8 3 (0.60%) Firewall
8 3 (0.60%) Multicast
8 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.60%) Wireless
9 2 (0.40%) MPLS
9 2 (0.40%) VPN
10 1 (0.20%) 4G
10 1 (0.20%) 5G
10 1 (0.20%) DNS
10 1 (0.20%) SAN
10 1 (0.20%) Skype
10 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.00%) Metadata
2 19 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 19 (3.80%) RDBMS
2 19 (3.80%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.60%) Power BI
4 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.00%) Tableau
5 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.60%) Big Data
6 3 (0.60%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.40%) DB2
7 2 (0.40%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 28 (5.60%) JIRA
2 19 (3.80%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.40%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 178 (35.60%) Finance
2 164 (32.80%) Social Skills
3 154 (30.80%) Marketing
4 89 (17.80%) Banking
5 84 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (13.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (12.20%) Retail
8 54 (10.80%) Law
9 50 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (8.60%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (6.00%) Legal
12 28 (5.60%) Back Office
13 26 (5.20%) Public Sector
14 24 (4.80%) Financial Institution
15 18 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (3.20%) Manufacturing
17 14 (2.80%) Italian Language
17 14 (2.80%) Retail Banking
18 13 (2.60%) Digital Economy
19 12 (2.40%) German Language
Job Titles
1 150 (30.00%) Product Manager
2 86 (17.20%) Senior
3 73 (14.60%) Lead
4 53 (10.60%) Product Owner
5 46 (9.20%) Senior Manager
6 39 (7.80%) Senior Product Manager
7 29 (5.80%) Development Engineer
7 29 (5.80%) Software Engineer
8 28 (5.60%) Software Development Engineer
9 22 (4.40%) Developer
10 19 (3.80%) Consultant
11 17 (3.40%) Product Lead
11 17 (3.40%) Senior Development Engineer
11 17 (3.40%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 17 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (2.80%) Business Consultant
13 14 (2.80%) Business Development Consultant
13 14 (2.80%) Development Consultant
13 14 (2.80%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.00%) REST
2 19 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.80%) Keras
3 4 (0.80%) PyTorch
3 4 (0.80%) TensorFlow
4 3 (0.60%) CSS
4 3 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.60%) HTML
5 2 (0.40%) Spring
5 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.40%) YAML
6 1 (0.20%) JSON
6 1 (0.20%) Next.js
6 1 (0.20%) Playwright
6 1 (0.20%) PySpark
6 1 (0.20%) pytest
6 1 (0.20%) React
6 1 (0.20%) RESTful
6 1 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 135 (27.00%) Product Ownership
2 45 (9.00%) Social Media
3 36 (7.20%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (7.00%) Cloud Native
4 35 (7.00%) Over-the-Top Content
5 29 (5.80%) Public Cloud
6 26 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (4.20%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.80%) Management Information System
9 15 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.40%) Web Conferencing
11 10 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.60%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.40%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.40%) Podcast
14 6 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (1.00%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.00%) Educational Technology
15 5 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.80%) Linux
2 19 (3.80%) Unix
3 6 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (61.00%) Roadmaps
2 229 (45.80%) Agile
3 147 (29.40%) Product Roadmap
4 106 (21.20%) Product Vision
5 105 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (20.20%) Decision-Making
8 99 (19.80%) AI
8 99 (19.80%) Mentoring
9 96 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
10 82 (16.40%) Product Strategy
10 82 (16.40%) User Stories
11 73 (14.60%) User Experience
12 68 (13.60%) Customer Experience
13 65 (13.00%) Analytics
13 65 (13.00%) Product Backlog
14 64 (12.80%) Product Requirements
14 64 (12.80%) Software Engineering
15 57 (11.40%) DevOps
16 55 (11.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 53 (10.60%) Java
2 30 (6.00%) Python
3 25 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.00%) Go
5 19 (3.80%) Bash
6 12 (2.40%) SQL
7 6 (1.20%) Bicep
8 3 (0.60%) R
9 2 (0.40%) COBOL
9 2 (0.40%) JCL
9 2 (0.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) C#
10 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (15.80%) Degree
2 23 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.80%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.40%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.40%) HNC
8 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.20%) HND
9 5 (1.00%) MBA
10 4 (0.80%) CISSP
11 3 (0.60%) CCNA
11 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.40%) ACCA
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CRISC
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.60%) QA
2 13 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.40%) GDPR
5 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.00%) PMO
6 4 (0.80%) SLA
7 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) PERC
8 2 (0.40%) GRC
8 2 (0.40%) IFRS
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.40%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) COREP
9 1 (0.20%) FINREP
9 1 (0.20%) GMP
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (4.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (6.40%) Terraform
2 22 (4.40%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.80%) Ansible
3 19 (3.80%) Argo
3 19 (3.80%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.80%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.60%) Adobe
3 34 (6.80%) Google
4 10 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.60%) Oracle
6 7 (1.40%) Cisco
7 5 (1.00%) Dell
8 4 (0.80%) Databricks
8 4 (0.80%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.80%) Foundry
8 4 (0.80%) NVIDIA
8 4 (0.80%) Toshiba
9 3 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.60%) Facebook
9 3 (0.60%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.60%) Patsystems
9 3 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (0.60%) Tenable
9 3 (0.60%) Trayport
9 3 (0.60%) YouTube